Chapter 141

That evening, he got lucky again—If I can call it that. Two johns approached him, guys he’d dealt with before so they knew the routine and what it would cost them. With money in his pocket, he went back to the diner, had a real meal—meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and corn, with a soda—and still had some cash left. He stuck it under the insole of his well-worn tennis shoes, and then decided to return to the rooftop he and Jamie had used a few days previously. He didn rsquo;t expect to find her there, so he wasn rsquo;t disappointed when he clambered up the fire escape and found he was the only one around. He was a bit surprised about that, however. On a normal night there would have been at least a couple more homeless guys, or women, staking their claim to a section of the roof.